Flip Saunders

Flip Saunders has never been around a group of worse shot-takers than the Wizards, and the man coached Rasheed Wallace.  

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What is it with this town? If our head coaches aren't appealing for offensive assistance from retired coaches-slash-bingo callers, they're calling in reinforcements culled from the ranks of ESPN.com readers. The Web site announced a contest this week, in which one lucky reader will be able to design an inbounds play that the Washington Wizards may or may not actually use in a game. It's without a doubt one of the most bizarre contests I've...  

More photos » by Steve Helber - AP Browse more photos » I missed practice yesterday, but according to Michael Lee, Flip Saunders had a message for Gilbert Arenas. "We haven't had as much of a thrust with the ball," Saunders said. "We want [Arenas]to be aggressive with the ball, whether it's scoring or distributing, but we...  

It’s not unusual to see Flip Saunders call for a substitution off the bench only to change his mind and send that player back to bench. So when Saunders called for Blatche, Young, Boykins, Oberto, and McGuire to check into the game I assumed this may be one of those instances. It wasn't.  

A motivated Caron Butler gets to the rim over Philadelphia forwardsMarreese Speights, right, and Elton Brand during the fourth quarter ofTuesday's 105-98 win. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Wizards 105, Sixers 98: There's changes, and then there's changes -- and just like David Bowie, Wizards head coach Flip Saunders obviously felt like engaging in some strange fascination, fascinating everyone on Tuesday night at the Verizon Center. Saunders grew...  

More photos » by Evan Vucci - AP I knew Earl Boykins and Will Bynum were short, I had no idea they only came up to Brendan Haywood's waist. Browse more photos » Game Hub | Boxscore | Game Flow Poor Flip.  Do you still think he would've taken the job in Washington if he had known...  

Dan Steinberg: Flip Saunders pays homage to Bullets past Great reporting on some of the more subtle ways Flip Saunders has made a difference.  

Another reason the Wizards will be better this year is Flip Saunders ability to draw up effective in-bounds and end-of-game plays.The Wizards ran this in-bounds play earlier in the game and Randy Foye came off a perfect screen by Haywood and hit a wide open jumper. The 76'ers didn't defend the play properly, and Flip noticed that and went back to that same play later in the game.With 42 seconds left, the Wizards ran the same in-bounds play...  

A failure to get past the Eastern Conference finals may have been Flip Saunders' undoing with the Detroit Pistons. He may be facing an even tougher task trying to get the Washington Wizards into the playoffs. The Pistons face Saunders for the first ...  

Washington Wizards coach Flip Saunders said it would probably take 20 games to learn what kind of a team he would have. By that time, the core players would have gotten used to playing together again while settling into Saunders' system, the new players would have learned their new teammates, and Saunders would have learned which role players he could count on to round out his rotation. That was the plan. But 15 games into the season, the...  

Directing his players at Tuesday's practice session - the first in more than a month with all his core players healthy - coach Flip Saunders had to feel relieved. Antawn Jamison, one of the cornerstones for the Washington Wizards, was back for the second straight day. Randy Foye also was back in his role as the key rotation player after missing the past two games with a sprained ankle. Finally, Saunders & Co. were able to resume building on...  

MIAMI | Gilbert Arenas gave the Washington Wizards a scare about an hour before Tuesday night's game against the Miami Heat. After running through pregame warmups, the guard and team trainers informed coach Flip Saunders that the sore right calf that had kept Arenas out of Monday's practice was too tight for him to play. Saunders, who already had four other injured players, had to come up with a new starting lineup. But 10 minutes before...  

PHILADELPHIA | When the Washington Wizards were in training camp in the first week of October, new coach Flip Saunders praised his players' intensity and effectiveness and said they were making it hard for him to settle on his eight- to nine-man rotation. Before Tuesday night's 90-89 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers, Saunders said his job was getting easier. But it wasn't because players were distinguishing themselves with continued strong...  

Washington Wizards' Andray Blatche (7) receives some instructions from coach Flip Saunders in the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, in Auburn Hills, Mich. The Pistons defeated the Wizards 98-94 ...